Why Images are Crucial for Blogging and SEO?

Raise your hand if you have yawned looking at content because it was all words and no images. I’m sure your hand is all up. We can imagine the way you would have felt when the white space was just filled with endless sentences and your eyes were getting all strained. This is why I know that images play a crucial role in breaking up the content.

Firstly, it increases the aesthetics. Secondly, it enhances the user experience because content with relevant images makes things more clear and entertaining. Lastly, Images break the monotony.

Now, we are sure you already knew these things but did you also know that images play a role in SEO too? If yes, you are pretty updated but if no, then glad we helped you learn a new thing today.

So, shortly we will go into more details of why images should be a part of your blogging but before that, you must know that including an image is not the only thing you should concern yourself with. There are three things that you need to make sure:

-The image should be relevant and of high quality (not pix-elated)

-The image should have a certain size depending on your website space allotted.

-You should name your image properly.

Now, let's understand why your blog needs images

Here are 5 reasons your blog should have images:

1. Posts look more professional

If you have images in your blog posts it gives a professional look overall. It gives the impression that you know what you are talking about. This can increase the CTR rates especially if you have affiliate products and even get you conversions.

2. Images aid in understanding a complicated topic

If you are trying to depict a process in your blog, what better way can there be that to make a custom image for it using tools like Canva. This way no matter how complicated it is you can explain it through icons, arrows, and clipart, etc.

3. Visual long posts get better results

If you are planning to create a long post then the best way to do it is support it with good supporting images. For instance, “if your blog has 50 balcony ideas for your home” then you must work on finding 50 images and write only limited text filled with good search volume keywords or most probably long-tail keywords.

4. Improve ranking in SEO

To rank your blog content, you need to work on your images too. Firstly name your images properly and include a keyword. Secondly, add alt tags to your image i.e. your focus keywords or its synonyms. Thirdly, keep it in a proper size so that it doesn’t overload your web page thus increasing the website loading time. Optimised images show up in search engine results, which upon getting clicked leads to the original content.

5. Well structured blogs

If you want to divide your content into different parts then separate them with images. This will decrease the reading time but you will still give out a lot of information just by using images (especially if it's an Info-graphic)

Conclusion

No matter how good your blog content is if it lacks a visual appeal there might be chances that you may not get any traffic at all. A good SEO content backed by an emotional or appealing image can give your content an edge. Thus, hire the SEO content writing services by contentwriting.us because we have trained SEO writers who know how to complement SEO-friendly content with unique images. 

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